EP2337234A1 - Verfahren, gerät und system für multi-antennen aussendung - Google Patents

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EP2337234A1
EP2337234A1 EP09823061A EP09823061A EP2337234A1 EP 2337234 A1 EP2337234 A1 EP 2337234A1 EP 09823061 A EP09823061 A EP 09823061A EP 09823061 A EP09823061 A EP 09823061A EP 2337234 A1 EP2337234 A1 EP 2337234A1
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  • the present invention relates to communications technologies, and in particular, to a method, apparatus, and system for multi-antenna transmission.
  • LTE Long term evolution
  • 3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project
  • OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
  • MIMO multiple input multiple output
  • the OFDM technology is a modulation technology of the concurrent transmission.
  • the transmitter modulates a message onto multiple subcarriers for concurrent transmission.
  • the subcarriers are orthogonal to each other, featuring high spectrum efficiency and effectively preventing the frequency selective attenuation.
  • OFDM is a preferred technology for next generation broadband radio access system.
  • MIMO is an advanced multi-antenna technology in the radio communication system, in which multiple antennas at the transmitter are used to transmit signals independently and multiple antennas at the receiver are used to receive signals.
  • MIMO is mainly used to improve the spectrum efficiency of the radio communication system through space flexibility provided by multiple transmitting and receiving antennas, so as to improve the transmission rate and signal quality. In this manner, without increasing the system bandwidth or total transmit power, the throughput and transmission distance are greatly increased.
  • Beamforming technology is another advanced multi-antenna technology. With this technology, multiple antennas form an antenna array, and the beamforming is generated by assigning certain weight values for the transmitted or received signals of the antenna arrays so that the transmitted or received signals are directional. This enhances the useful signals, prevents interference, and improves the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).
  • SNR signal-to-noise ratio
  • the LTE protocol supports the multi-antenna technology such as MIMO and the beamforming technology, which facilitates application of the multi-antenna technology by providing supports such as code of the multiple antennas, reference signals (RSs) of the multiple antennas, and measurement feedback of the multiple antennas.
  • MIMO multi-antenna technology
  • RSs reference signals
  • MIMO and the beamforming technology supported by the current LTE protocol may only be used independently.
  • one of MIMO and the beamforming technology may be used in different cells, at different times, or for different users, that is, MIMO and the beamforming technology cannot be used for one user concurrently. Therefore, the advantages of MIMO and the beamforming technology may not be utilized effectively.
  • Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method, apparatus, and system for multi-antenna transmission, which implements combined use of the both multi-antenna technologies of multiple input multiple output (MIMO) and the beamforming technology.
  • MIMO multiple input multiple output
  • Embodiments of the present invention are implemented through the following technical solution.
  • One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for multi-antenna transmission.
  • the method includes:
  • One embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus for multi-antenna transmission.
  • the apparatus includes:
  • One embodiment of the present invention provides a multi-antenna communication system, including an apparatus for multi-antenna transmission and a receiving apparatus.
  • the receiving apparatus is configured to receive signals transmitted by the apparatus for multi-antenna transmission, perform channel estimation according to the UE-specific RSs corresponding to each beamforming array, and receive and demodulate downlink signals transmitted from each beamforming array.
  • embodiments of the present invention implement combined use of both the MIMO and the beamforming technology.
  • the MIMO transmission technology may be used on multiple beamforming arrays, which brings the advantages of the beamforming technology and MIMO into full play. Therefore, the SNR is improved through the array gain of the beamforming to reduce the interference between users, and the channel capacity in the system and the spectrum efficiency are improved through MIMO. Therefore, the technical solution provided in embodiments of the present invention is of practical value.
  • the multi-antenna transmission system supports MIMO and the beamforming technology concurrently.
  • a base station supports multiple antenna arrays, each of the antenna arrays uses the beamforming technology, and MIMO is used on the multiple antenna arrays.
  • the MIMO technology includes a transmission diversity and space division multiplexing (SDM).
  • SDM space division multiplexing
  • four main antennas form a main antenna array according to requirements of the beamforming technology
  • four diversity antennas form a diversity antenna array according to requirements of the beamforming technology
  • MIMO is used on the main antenna array and the diversity antenna array.
  • the LTE protocol considers the requirements of the demodulation of MIMO (which supports the downlink cell-specific RS mapping of one antenna, two antennas and four antennas) and the beamforming technology (which supports UE-specific RSs) in the design of the downlink reference signals (RSs).
  • MIMO which supports the downlink cell-specific RS mapping of one antenna, two antennas and four antennas
  • the beamforming technology which supports UE-specific RSs
  • RSs downlink reference signals
  • the mapping of the cell-specific RSs used in MIMO is illustrated in FIG.2 , where 1 is a symbol index.
  • the cell-specific RSs are downlink common RSs. All user equipments (UEs) in a cell can receive and demodulate the downlink common RSs.
  • the advantages of MIMO lie in that the SDM can be implemented through multiple code streams to improve the throughput of the system n times in the prerequisite that channel correlativity meets requirements.
  • the UE-specific RSs are used for the beamforming demodulation.
  • the mapping of the UE-specific RSs used in the beamforming technology is illustrated as an example in FIG. 3 .
  • the UE-specific RSs are dedicated RSs, and specifically used by the UE that uses beamforming to receive and demodulate beamforming signals.
  • the antenna port 5 shown in FIG. 3 is a logic antenna port, which is the antenna port mapped to the beamforming array.
  • the UE-specific RSs and the downlink data forming beamforming and sent to the UE use the same weight value to implement beamforming transmission.
  • the advantages of the beamforming technology lie in that make the energy to target at the terminal through the weight of the antenna array so as to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the target terminal.
  • SNR signal-to-noise ratio
  • the combined use of MIMO and the beamforming technology described above is not supported because only one group of RSs are defined for the UE-specific RSs, that is, only one antenna array is supported. If MIMO is used upon multiple antenna arrays, each antenna array needs to be provided with dedicated RSs so that the RSs of multiple antenna arrays are not mutually interfered at the receiver. If each antenna array is not provided with dedicated RSs, the RSs of multiple antenna arrays may not be differentiated at the receiver, and the channel features of different MIMO channels may not be estimated. As a result, the signals transmitted by multiple antenna arrays may not be received and demodulated accurately.
  • One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for multi-antenna transmission.
  • the method improves the UE-specific RSs.
  • the UE-specific RSs support multiple beamforming arrays and MIMO is used upon the multiple beamforming arrays so that the multi-antenna technology is used for the same user in the same cell at the same time and the advantages of both MIMO and the beamforming technology are brought into full play.
  • the improvements to the UE-specific RSs include: allocating a different subcarrier resource or a different code resource for the UE-specific RSs corresponding to each beamforming array, that is, different subcarrier resources are corresponding to different beamforming arrays or different code resources are corresponding to different beamforming arrays.
  • the method for multi-antenna transmission includes: allocating a different subcarrier resource or a different code resources to UE-specific RSs corresponding to each beamforming array of multiple beamforming arrays, that is, different subcarrier resources are corresponding to different beamforming arrays or different code resources are corresponding to different beamforming arrays; and using MIMO on the beamforming arrays.
  • Using MIMO on the beamforming arrays specifically includes: using MIMO on the beamforming arrays according to UE-specific RSs corresponding to each beamforming array.
  • FIG. 4 One detailed technical solution disclosed in embodiments of the present invention is illustrated in FIG. 4 , which includes the following steps:
  • the grouping of the UE-specific RSs on the subcarrier resources refers to grouping the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RSs. To ensure that the receiver receives signals of multiple arrays correctly, the following factors need to be considered in the grouping process to facilitate channel estimation at a receiver:
  • the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RSs corresponding to each antenna port are evenly distributed in an interleaving manner. It should be understood that other grouping modes may not affect the implementation described in the embodiments of the present invention.
  • each group of subcarrier resources is allocated to a beamforming array.
  • the number of groups of the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RSs is the same as the number of beamforming arrays that are required.
  • Step 42 Group logic antenna ports according to the number of beamforming arrays that are required.
  • the number of grouped logic antenna ports is the same as the number of beamforming arrays. Therefore, the number of grouped logic antenna ports is the same as the number of groups of the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RSs.
  • antenna ports 5 are grouped into groups the number of which is equal to the number of beamforming arrays. For example, if two beamforming arrays are required, antenna ports 5 are grouped into two groups, namely, antenna port 5a and antenna port 5b.
  • Step 43 Map the grouped UE-specific RSs to the grouped logic antenna ports.
  • Step 44 Transmit signals of multiple beamforming arrays by using MIMO on the multiple beamforming arrays.
  • the UE-specific RSs transmitted by the beamforming arrays are already grouped on the subcarrier resource. That is, the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RSs are grouped and the UE-specific RSs corresponding to the grouped subcarrier resources are mapped to the grouped logic antenna ports. Therefore, when signals of multiple beamforming arrays are transmitted with MIMO used on the multiple beamforming arrays, the rest of the multiple beamforming arrays do not transmit any signals with the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RSs corresponding to one of the multiple beamforming arrays.
  • UE may perform channel estimation according to the UE-specific RSs corresponding to each beamforming array, and receive and demodulate the downlink signals transmitted by each beamforming array.
  • UE-specific RSs use the same resources (radio resources) described in the existing solution if two beamforming arrays are required to implement the transmit diversity or MIMO SDM on the two beamforming arrays.
  • the resources used by the UE-specific RSs in one subframe are grouped into two groups, each group of resources being allocated to a beamforming array.
  • the logic antenna ports 5 at the layer mapping are grouped into antenna port 5a and antenna port 5b.
  • two groups of UE-specific RSs are mapped to antenna port 5a and antenna port 5b respectively.
  • no signal is transmitted with subcarrier resources while the subcarrier resources are used by the UE-specific RSs at antenna port 5a.
  • no signal is transmitted with subcarrier resources while the subcarrier resources are used by the UE-specific RSs at antenna port 5b. This ensures that the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RSs used by two beamforming arrays do not interfere with each other.
  • the UE may perform channel estimation according to the UE-specific RSs of two beamforming arrays and then receive and demodulate the signals transmitted from the two beamforming arrays when receiving downlink signals.
  • the grouping of the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RSs may be in the mode shown in FIG. 6 .
  • the number and distribution of subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RSs is consistent with that in the current protocol.
  • Each of the layer mapping logic ports (antenna port 5a and antenna port 5b) corresponding to the two beamforming arrays uses half of the subcarrier resources for the UE-specific RSs. It should be understood that the method disclosed in the preceding embodiment may also support more beamforming arrays. That is, the UE-specific RSs may be grouped into more groups on the subcarrier resources and the logic antenna ports may be grouped according to actual requirements.
  • the rest of the beamforming arrays do not transmit any signals with the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RSs of one of the beamforming arrays. This ensures that the RSs of multiple antenna arrays' UE-specific RSs do not interfere with each other at the receiver, and the receiver may estimate the channel features of different MIMO channels accurately and receive and demodulate signals transmitted by the multiple antenna arrays accurately.
  • Embodiments of the present invention solves the problem that the mapping of downlink UE-specific RS defined in the current protocol supports only one beamforming array.
  • the UE-specific RS grouping scheme provided in embodiments of the present invention, the UE-specific RSs can support multiple beamforming arrays on which MIMO transmission diversity or MIMO SDM can be used so that the combined use of MIMO and the beamforming technology is supported. This brings into full play of the advantages of the beamforming technology and MIMO.
  • the technical solution provided in embodiments of the present invention is fully compatible with the current protocols.
  • the number and distribution of subcarrier resources for the UE-specific RSs may be the same as that specified in the current protocols.
  • embodiments of the present invention do not exclude the case that the number and distribution of subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RSs before grouping is different from the number and distribution of subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RSs after grouping.
  • the solution provided in embodiments of the present invention is also applicable to this case.
  • the method disclosed in embodiments of the present invention for grouping the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RSs is not limited to the embodiments.
  • Those skilled in the art can easily make other grouping schemes based on the scheme disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention, which fall into the protection scope of the present invention.
  • One embodiment of the present invention provides another method for multi-antenna transmission.
  • MIMO is used on multiple beamforming arrays for combined use of MIMO and the beamforming technology, so that the multi-antenna technology is used for the same user in the same cell at the same time and the advantages of MIMO and the beamforming technology are brought into full play.
  • the method includes the following steps:
  • the number of beamforming arrays that are required is determined. Because each beamforming array requires its corresponding UE-specific RSs so that the UE receives and demodulates beamforming signals, only one group of RS are defined in the UE-specific RSs.
  • the coded UE-specific RSs may be corresponding to the number of beamforming arrays that are required.
  • the RSs of the UE-specific RSs of multiple antenna arrays do not interfere with each other at the receiver, and the receiver may accurately estimate channel features of different MIMO channels and receive and demodulate the signals transmitted by the multiple antenna arrays correctly.
  • Embodiments of the present invention use at least two beamforming arrays, and differentiate the UE-specific RSs of each beamforming array by using the CDM.
  • Step 21 The signal transmitter transmits the UE-specific RSs corresponding to each beamforming array and uses MIMO on the beamforming arrays.
  • the transmitter transmits the UE-specific RSs corresponding to each beamforming array, the UE-specific RSs differentiated in CDM mode and transmits signals by using MIMO on the beamforming arrays.
  • the UE may perform channel estimation according to the UE-specific RSs corresponding to each beamforming array, and receive and demodulate the downlink signals transmitted by each beamforming array.
  • Embodiments of the present invention differentiate the UE-specific RSs used by each beamforming array by using CDM and implement the combined use of MIMO and the beamforming technology, which brings the advantages of the beamforming technology and MIMO into full play. Therefore, the SNR is improved through the array gain of the beamforming to reduce the interference between users, and the channel capacity in the system and the spectrum efficiency are improved through MIMO.
  • the technical solution is valuable and convenient.
  • using the CDM mode to differentiate the UE-specific RSs used by each beamforming array is only an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, and the solution of the present invention is not limit to this.
  • the present invention does not exclude other modes for differentiating the beamforming arrays to implement the combination use of the beamforming technology and MIMO.
  • One embodiment of the present invention provides a device for multi-antenna transmission, including a first unit and a transmitting unit.
  • the first unit is configured to allocate a different subcarrier resource or a different code resource to UE-specific RSs corresponding to each beamforming array of multiple beamforming arrays, that is, different subcarrier resources are corresponding to different beamforming arrays or different code resources are corresponding to different beamforming arrays.
  • the transmitting unit is configured to transmit signals by using MIMO on the beamforming arrays.
  • the first unit further includes: a first grouping unit, configured to group the UE-specific RSs on the subcarrier resources (grouping the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RSs) according to the number of beamforming arrays that are required; a second grouping unit, configured to group logic antenna ports according to the number of beamforming arrays that are required; and a layer mapping unit, configured to map the grouped UE-specific RSs to the grouped logic antenna ports.
  • a first grouping unit configured to group the UE-specific RSs on the subcarrier resources (grouping the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RSs) according to the number of beamforming arrays that are required
  • a second grouping unit configured to group logic antenna ports according to the number of beamforming arrays that are required
  • a layer mapping unit configured to map the grouped UE-specific RSs to the grouped logic antenna ports.
  • the first unit may further include: a beamforming array setting unit, configured to differentiate the UE-specific RSs of the beamforming arrays by using the CDM mode.
  • a beamforming array setting unit configured to differentiate the UE-specific RSs of the beamforming arrays by using the CDM mode.
  • the transmitting unit is configured to transmit signals by using MIMO on the beamforming arrays according to the UE-specific RSs corresponding to each beamforming array.
  • Embodiments of the present invention implement combined use of MIMO and the beamforming technology.
  • the MIMO transmission technology may be used on multiple beamforming arrays, which brings the advantages of the beamforming technology and MIMO into full play. Therefore, the SNR is improved through the array gain of the beamforming to reduce the interference between users, and the channel capacity in the system and the spectrum efficiency are improved through MIMO. This technical solution is of practical value.
  • the network side transmits downlink signals to the terminal side is used as an example in the embodiments of the present invention for illustration only. It should be understood that in actual application, the multi-antenna apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present invention may be used to transmit uplink signals.
  • One embodiment of the present invention provides a multi-antenna communication system, including a multi-antenna transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus.
  • the receiving apparatus is configured to receive signals transmitted by the multi-antenna transmitting apparatus 70, perform channel estimation according to the UE-specific RSs of each beamforming array, and receive and demodulate downlink signals transmitted from each beamforming array.
  • the system includes a multi-antenna transmitting apparatus 70 and a receiving apparatus 80.
  • the multi-antenna transmitting apparatus 70 supports both the beamforming technology and MIMO and is configured to group UE-specific RSs on subcarrier resources according to the number of beamforming arrays that are required.
  • the multi-antenna transmitting apparatus 70 groups the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RSs and groups logic antenna ports according to the number of beamforming arrays that are required, maps the grouped UE-specific RSs to the grouped logic antenna ports respectively, and uses MIMO on the beamforming arrays.
  • the multi-antenna transmitting apparatus 70 includes: a first grouping unit 700, a second grouping unit 701, a layer mapping unit 702, and a transmitting unit 703.
  • the first grouping unit 700 is configured to group the UE-specific RSs on the subcarrier resources according to the number of beamforming arrays that are required. To be specific, the first grouping unit 700 groups the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RSs and allocates each group of subcarrier resource to one beamforming array. The grouping needs to consider the factor that the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RSs of each antenna port are evenly distributed in an interleaving manner to facilitate channel estimation at a receiver. It should be understood that other grouping modes may not affect the implementation described in the embodiments of the present invention.
  • the second grouping unit 701 is configured to group logic antenna ports according to the number of beamforming arrays that are required.
  • the layer mapping unit 702 is configured to map the UE-specific RSs grouped by the first grouping unit 700 to the logic antenna ports grouped by the second grouping unit 701.
  • the transmitting unit 703 is configured to transmit signals by using MIMO on multiple beamforming arrays.
  • the transmitting unit 703 transmits signals after the first grouping unit 700, the second grouping unit 701, and layer mapping unit 702 perform the operations. That is, the UE-specific RSs transmitted by the beamforming arrays are grouped on the subcarrier resources (the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RSs are grouped), and the grouped UE-specific RSs are mapped to the grouped logic antenna ports. Therefore, when signals are transmitted with MIMO used on multiple beamforming arrays, the rest of the beamforming arrays do not transmit any signals with the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RSs of one of the beamforming arrays.
  • the multi-antenna transmitting apparatus 70 is only an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, and the structure of the multi-antenna transmitting apparatus in the present invention is not limit to this. Different structure designs fall into the protection scope of the present invention, which supports that signals are transmitted with MIMO used on multiple beamforming arrays, and the rest of the beamforming arrays do not transmit any signals with the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RSs of one of the beamforming arrays.
  • the receiving apparatus 80 is configured to receive signals transmitted by the multi-antenna transmitting apparatus 70, perform channel estimation according to the UE-specific RSs of each beamforming array, and receive and demodulate downlink signals transmitted from each beamforming array.
  • the system of this embodiment may be any radio system using multi-antenna technology, for example, LTE.
  • the UE-specific RSs can support multiple beamforming arrays on which MIMO transmit diversity and SDM can be used so that the combined use of MIMO and the beamforming technology is supported. This brings into full play of the advantages of the beamforming technology and MIMO.
  • the system includes a multi-antenna transmitting apparatus 71 and a receiving apparatus 81.
  • the multi-antenna transmitting apparatus 71 supports the combined use of the beamforming technology and MIMO and differentiates the UE-specific RSs of the beamforming arrays by using the CDM mode, and transmits signals by using MIMO on the beamforming arrays.
  • the multi-antenna transmitting apparatus 71 includes:
  • the multi-antenna transmitting apparatus 71 is only an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, but the structure of the multi-antenna transmitting apparatus in the present invention is not limit to this. Different structure designs fall into the protection scope of the present invention, which supports that signals are transmitted with MIMO used on multiple beamforming arrays, and the rest of the beamforming arrays do not transmit any signals with the subcarrier resources used by the UE-specific RSs of one of the beamforming arrays.
  • the CDM mode to differentiate the UE-specific RSs of the beamforming is only an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, and the technical solution of the present invention is not limit to this.
  • the present invention does not exclude other modes for differentiating the beamforming arrays to implement the combination use of the beamforming technology and MIMO.
  • the receiving apparatus 81 is configured to receive signals transmitted by the multi-antenna transmitting apparatus 71, perform channel estimation according to the UE-specific RSs of each beamforming array, and receive and demodulate downlink signals transmitted from each beamforming array.
  • Embodiments of the present invention implement combined use of MIMO and the beamforming technology by differentiating the UE-specific RSs through the code division multiplexing (CDM).
  • the MIMO transmission technology may be used on multiple beamforming arrays, which brings the advantages of the beamforming technology and MIMO into full play. Therefore, the SNR is improved through the array gain of the beamforming to reduce the interference between users, and the channel capacity in the system and the spectrum efficiency are improved through MIMO.
  • the technical solution is valuable and convenient for implementation.
  • embodiments of the present invention implement combined use of MIMO and the beamforming technology.
  • the MIMO transmission technology may be used on multiple beamforming arrays, which brings the advantages of beamforming and MIMO into full play. Therefore, the SNR is improved through the array gain of the beamforming to reduce the interference between users, and the channel capacity in the system and the spectrum efficiency are improved through MIMO. This technical solution is of practical value.
  • the programs may be stored in a computer readable storage medium.
  • the storage medium includes various mediums, such as a read-only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or a compact disk, which can store program code.

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